Crust-breaker attachment for railway spreaders



APPLICATION FILED JULY 9,1920.

yPatentedl 4Jan. 31, 1922.

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CRUST-BREAKER ATTACHVIEN T F032, RAELWAY SPREADERS.

innesta' Specification of Letters Patent. yaifnijd Jan, 31, 1922,

Application led July 9, l 920. Serial No. 394,892.

The purpose of this invention is to provide an attachment for railway spreaders, designed and adapted for breakingup crust ed areas alongside the track on which the ear carrying the spreader operates, Aas for example, -frozen ground, or areas on which slag has been deposited for cooling, or more or less rocky formation of a crust character. lt consists in the elements and features of construction shown and described as indicated in the claims.

ln the drawings:

Figure l. is a plan view showing in outline a car and a spreader 'wing extending in the usual oblique position therefrom, and provided with the crust-breaking devices embodying this invention.

Figure 2 is a plan view of a breaker embodying this invention, shown detached from the spreader wing, the latter, however, being shown in dotted line in the `position occupied when the breaker is attached.

Figure 3 is a section at the line 3 3 on Figure 2.

Figure l is an inner side elevation of the breaker.

Figure 5 is an outer side elevation of the breaker.

ln the drawings `there is shown in general outline a car, l, having a spreader wing, 2, extended therefrom obliquely in the usual position of operation, the' details of the spreader arm and its mode of operation or of any of the spreading devices connected therewith being omitted. A, A, A, are

breakers embodying this invention, and

shown attached to the spreader arm in position for performing their function of breaking up crust. Each of the breakers, A, comprises a central body member, A, having fork comprising arms, A2, A2, extending upwardly from it, positioned and formed t0- embrace between them the spreader arm 2. and to be secured thereto by bolts extending through said lugs and spreader arms in any workmanlike manner. The detail construction of the spreader arm as to its lower or soil-engaging edge is one which is familiar,

and the breaker body, A1, is conformed thereto, said construction consisting in that the said spreader arm or wing is armoured upon bothk sides by metal plates la, 1b, the lower edge of the' wing being armoured by means of two angle strips, le, 1d, having horizontal flanges bolted together andthe verticalilange of one extending up embracing onecorner ofthe lower edgev of the spreader arm, underthe armor plate l, and the other -flange extending down and being lapped by the armour plate, l, forming with said arniour` plate the lower or working edge of the spreader These'features are not any essential part of the present invention; but, as stated,the form ofthe body member A1 of the breaker is conformed thereto, as seen in Figure 3. rlhe body member A1 is armoured on two vsides and the bottom, and when completed with said armour, the form is substantially and generally triangularly pyit'amidal with the apeX or point forward, two of the three sides leading to said point eing at right angles to each other, and the third slightly conically concave outward. @ne of the two first mentioned sides is the bottom, being substantially horizontal, and the other being vertical is positioned with respect to the lugs by which the breaker is secured to the spreader arm, so that when thus secured, said vertical side extends substantially parallel with the direction of travel of the car on the track. The angle of divergence between the said vertical side and the said concavely sloping side is somewhat greater than the angle of divergence of thespreader wing from the car, so that the outer or sloping side diverges outward rearwardly from the already diverging spreader arm, as may be seen in Figure 2.

The breaker thus described, it will be seen, presents a point adapted to penetrate the earth underneath any crust which is to be broken, and presents a cutting edgeextending in an upward sloping direction rearward from said point in a plane parallel with the ydirection of advance of the breaker as it is carried by thespreader wing when the car is ymoving along the track for the work. lt is line parallel to the direction of travel, and break it over the sloping@` cutting edge as it Y is thus upheaved or wedged upward by the the spreader, and clearing the lground down to the desired level determined by the mounting,E of the wing on the car.

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1.111 combination with a railway ear, a spreader wingV carried thereby Vadapted to be extended off obliquely over the area adjacent to the track, and a device for breaking; crusted areas, consisting of a breaker having' three generally triangular faces convereinfY to a )oint at the forward end two of said faces being,` in planes at right angles.

to each other, and the third slightly concave outwardly, and ineans for mountingit on the spreader wing depending` rigidly below the saine, with one of said first two inentioned faces vertical and `substantially par! allel to the path of travel of the car, and theoth Ya' of said two faces facing downwardly and horizontal.

2. ln the construction defined in claim l, the breaker having` an upwardly-extending forni whose arms embrace the spreader wing for securing the breaker thereto.

3. in the construction defined in claim l foregoing, the breaker comprising a central body having an upwardly-extending form whose arms -einbrace the spreader-wing' for secnreinent thereto, and an armor applied on said central body and affording the three triangular faces mentioned.

e. ln combination with a railway car, a spreader wing carried thereby, adapted to be extended obliquely over an areavadjacent vto t ie track, and a plurality of crust-break ers, carried rigidly bysaid spreader wing dependingv thereiroin at intervals in the length of said wing, each of said crust breakers consisting of a nieinber having three substantially triangular faces convergingr to a point, two of Said faces being in planes at right angles to each other, one horizontal and the other vertical and substantially parallel to the path of travel of the car. v

ln testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand at hicago, Illinois, this 3rd day of duly, 1920. Y

, GRVILLE C. MANN. 

